Landholders urge more bushfire zone building changes

A group of landholders restricted from building on their rural properties is calling on the Victoria Government to make further changes to the way it manages construction in bushfire prone areas.

The Victorian Government has excluded thousands of properties in regional Victoria towns from being charged costly fees to develop but has included thousands of others for the first time.

However, changes to the bushfire prone area maps do not apply to lots on the urban fringe or rural areas, affected by a bushfire management overlay.

Kate Cotter, who intends to lead a class action against the State Government's planning laws, says the those affected landholders are unable to build on their own properties.

"So we're just asking for a few changes that allow for people's land size and some other basic issues that can be really easily remedied and still provide the community and landholders with an improved resilience to bushfire," she said.